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Sitting in his loftlike Manhattan office amid stacks of auction catalogs, art monographs and fashion books, Krakoff points to his Marc Newson Event Horizon desk, one of only eight in the world. (He also has a carbon-fiber-and-corrugated-paper Ron Arad desk.) "It's as much sculpture as it is functional," he says. "These kinds of pieces straddle the line. The distinction between art and design is really blurred...
...Louvre and has been a Parisian institution since 1905, has been closed for 10 years. The restored and redesigned galleries reflect a new approach to presentation. The permanent collection, with pieces ranging from furniture by Baroque master André-Charles Boulle to contemporary designs by Philippe Starck and Marc Newson, will be displayed chronologically and by artist or workshop, allowing visitors to understand the historical and cultural contexts from which the works are derived. The sweeping collection includes 150,000 pieces of furniture, porcelain, glass, textiles, toys and jewels dating from the Middle Ages to the present. In celebration...
...Tumi and Samsonite are responding to the new demand with flair. They're using innovation and color to turn formerly utilitarian pieces into style statements. Tumi's new Ducati line features eight different travel bags with racy black-and-red styling. Samsonite Black Label hired trendy industrial designer Marc Newson to create a lightweight, colorful line of luggage called Scope. He used EVA foam--once found only in sneakers--to create one of the lightest uprights on the market...
...These carry-on pieces are being treated more like an accessory," says Lynne Berard, vice president of marketing at Samsonite. "People don't want just your basic black anymore. They want color. They want to make a statement." So Samsonite is selling its Newson line in luxury boutiques like Conran's and at W Hotels, as opposed to typical luggage specialty stores...
...involves getting three things right: price, fashion and fabrication. "If we create a handbag that everyone wants and then they also say, 'Great price,' then we've hit on something," says Krakoff, whose office is decorated with inspiration boards that include photos of a Noguchi sculpture, a Marc Newson sketch and a swatch of gray fabric from a chair in his house. "I'm noticing more organic shapes and more black and white than color right now," he says, flipping through an auction catalog filled with works by American artists like Alexander Calder and Robert Motherwell...